Peshawar, 2nd July: Reportedly the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Government used a mere 35 percent of its developmental funds in the outgoing fiscal year 2019-2020.
According to Baaghi TV, the documents available with showed that the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had been allocated Rs 391 billion of the budget in the ongoing financial year. Out of these, Rs 157.21 billion was released, however, only Rs 112 billion could be spent.
The KP government, on the other hand, claims that by the time a final report on the funds used in the current financial year is received, around Rs 220 billion would have been spent. This indicates that approximately Rs 108 billion would have been spent in the last weeks of the outgoing fiscal year.
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Financial documents of the provincial government show that of the total allocation, the provincial government had provided Rs 108 billion.
Moreover, Rs 83 billion was allocated for the merged districts and Rs 82 billion were expected to arrive from abroad through various funding and donor organizations.
However, the government revised its total outlay of the provincial annual development plan (ADP) downwards to Rs 220 billion.
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A breakup for this, as per the document: Rs 95 billion was from the province’s own resources, Rs 4 billion was for the district ADP, Rs 38 billion for the development programs of merged districts and Rs 65 billion from foreign resources.
The final count also included Rs 17.9 billion for the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP), which was not part of the original actual ADP.
The document further conceded that billions that were allocated for different sectors during the outgoing financial year could not be spent.
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This included Rs 3.37 billion allocated for the agriculture sector of the settled districts, Rs 150.78 million for religious and minorities affairs, Rs 150.24 million for the provincial board of revenue, Rs 350.60 million for construction of buildings, Rs 2.92 billion for the district ADP, Rs 3 billion for sanitation services and water supply schemes, Rs 8.87 billion for primary and secondary education, Rs 1.73 billion for energy and power, Rs 3.7 million for the environment, Rs 40 million for the excise and taxation sector, Rs 60.39 million for finance, Rs 130.78 million for food, Rs 3.69 billion for forests, Rs 41 billion for interior, Rs 250 million for housing, Rs 1.23 billion for industries, Rs 5.5 million for labor, a billion rupees for the law and justice sector, Rs 2.31 billion for local government, Rs 12.14 billion for multi-sector development, Rs 160 million for population welfare, and Rs 8 billion for special measures.
Moreover, Rs 1.72 billion for special initiatives, Rs 2.74 billion for sports and tourism, Rs 122 million for science and information technology, Rs 1.5 billion for transport, Rs 5 billion for civic development and Rs 3 billion for the water sector could not be spent.
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Of the Rs 59 billion allocated under the 10-year development program for the merged areas, only Rs 13.58 billion were spent.
It is reported that the government also failed to spend any money on the development of different sectors in the merged districts including revenue, religious affairs, mineral, information technology, transport, law and Justice, excise and taxation, and labor.
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